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...defender of the rights of children and women, who in recent years has taken up the cause of persecuted activists. She was one of the 134 signatories of the 1994 Declaration of Iranian Writers, an early turning point in the pro-democracy struggle. "Her character is that of a fighter," says Shahla Lahiji, a prominent Iranian publisher and close friend for 20 years. Ebadi's mother Mino, 79, has long been proud of her daughter. "I cried all day," she told TIME as she served tea and cookies to family members at Ebadi's apartment. "We always encouraged our children...
Roughly six years ago, a World War II aviator attended a ceremony in honor of the black fighter pilots who had protected bombers like himself, looking for someone to thank...
During the war, Heilbrun flew 32 combat missions. Leahr flew 132 missions as a Tuskegee airman, a member of the all-black fighter group trained at the Tuskegee Institute and Tuskegee Air Field in Alabama...
...expected announcement of election results for the Chechen presidency. Chechens had little choice but to vote for Putin's hand-picked nominee, Akhmad Kadyrov, 52, head of the Moscow-appointed administration in Chechnya. The former mufti, or chief Islamic legal authority, of Chechnya was once an anti-Russian guerrilla fighter. He rallied to the Russian cause in late 1999 because, as he tells it, he disapproved of the growing influence of radical Islamists among the rebels. It was a dangerous move--Kadyrov has since survived many attempts on his life--but a politically advantageous one. By election...
...jinks, the collection of songs comes across obscure and often bizarre: take Zamfir’s four-minute flute rendition of “The Lonely Shepard”, or “Crane / White Lightning” by RZA and Charles Berenstein, which sounds like the street fighter version of an Ennio Morricone piece...